The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney hosted a media call in which our experts discussed the impact of the previous day's decision by an arbitral tribunal in the contentious case between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea.

The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration announced a ruling Tuesday (Dutch time) on the Philippine government’s submission regarding China’s activities in the South China Sea. The centre's experts discussed the impact of the decision in China, the United States, Australia, and within maritime Asia.

The Centre's experts available during the media call were:

James Brown: Research director at the US Studies Centre

Richard Fontaine: Alliance 21 fellow and president of the Center for a New American Security

Linda Jakobson: Visiting professor at the US Studies Centre and author of The perception gap: reading China's maritime objectives in Indo-Pacific Asia

Ashley Townsend: Research fellow at the US Studies Centre and currently a visiting fellow at the Asia-Pacific Center, Fudan University, Shanghai

First published

13 July 2016

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